The Sun. — London, England, 1808-07-04 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION. SUN-OFFICE. Tars day Parliament was prorogued by Commis- Sion, when the Lotto CHANCELLOR delivered the following Speech to both Houses of Parliament : " lily Lords and Gentlemen, " W e have it in command from His Majesty to ex press to you the great satisfaaion which he de tires Worn being enabled, by putting an end to the Present Session of Parliament, to terminate the la borious attendance which the Public Business has te cluirc`d of you. " The Measure which you have adopted for the ItnProvement of the Military Force of the Country, Promises to by the foundation of a System of'ln iftnal Defence eminently useful, and peculiarly adapted 'to t)e Exigencies of these Times. " The sanetion which you have giVen to tbOie Measures of Defensive Retaliation, to which the tiolent Attacks of the Enemy, upon the Commerce and Resources of this King , lorn,.comPelled His Ma jesty to resort, has been highly satislisaorY to His Majesty, " His Majesty doubts, not that in the result the Enemy will be convinced of the impolicy of perse vering in a System which retorts upon himself, in so much greater proportion, those Evils which he qndeavours to inflia upon this Country. . - " Gentlemen of the House of Commons, " We are commanded hy . His Majesty to return His most hearty acknowichigments for the cheerful ness and liberality with which the necessary Supplies for th e current year have been provided. "'His Majesty direas us to assure you, that he participates in the satisfaiStion with which you must have contemplated the flourishing situatiop of the Revenu e and Credit in of th e Country,, notwithstand g the continued pressure of the War : And he congratulates Vide for you upon h av i ng been enabled to pro ,the you of t h e P u bli c Service, with so small an addition to the Public lurthens. " His Majesty commands us to thank you for having enabled him to make good his Engagements With his Allies jar ) and t o express to you' the particu gratification whiCh he has derived from the man tier to which you have provided for the Establish 'tient of his Sister ; Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Brunswick. " My Lords and Gentle Men, " His Majesty has great satisfaCtion in informing you, that, notwithstanding the formidable Confe deracy united against His Ally the King of Sweden, That Sovereign perseveres, with unabated vigdtii. and con stancy, to M a int a i n t h e Honour and Independence c his Crown, and that no effort has been want ing on the part of His Majesty' to support hin . l in the arduous Contest in which he IS engaged. " The recent transaaions in Spain and Italy have tthibited new and strilcing Pro o f s o f the unbounded a nd unprincipled Ambition which aauates the coin inon Enemy of every established and independent Nation in the World. " His Majesty views *ith the liveliest interest the loyal and detehnined spirit maniteited by the Spaniiti.Nation, in resisting the violence and perfidy with winds their dearest rights have been assailed. " Spanish .Natioh, „;thus nobly strbggling ignivst the Tyranny and.-rasurliation'of France, Cart no longer be considered tairl as the Enemy of G reat B ri. ; but is redog n it c d by • His Majesty as a natural Flieud and Any. j" W e are commuided to inform you that His Ma... erty fla: received Communications front . several Of ihe Provinces of Spain; soliciting the Aid of His liajesty. The An:Wer of His Ma sty- to these Communications has been received in ::.?pain, with every demonstration of those sentiments of Con fidence and affection which aTe congettial to th e feeling s and true .int erests of both - Nations zed His Majesty: commands . us to ,assure you, that Ha will continue to make' ever:: xer tion in his power for the* support of the Spanish Caus e; guided in the choice and icy the direction of his exurtions by the wishes of those in whose be half they are employed.. Incontribe.ng to the succe and ss of this great glorious cause, !-,;(.: Majesty has no other objed than that .of .prescrving un i mpa i red the power and i ndependenPe of tfie Spanish Monarch. But tae. Cruets - that th y A same efforts which are directed . to that great ohjea, may, under the blessing of Divine .ProviLlence, leiid in their effect, and by their example, to th e restoration of the Liberties and ,Peactir Eerope." Coact EXCHANGE, JULY 4.---The supply of Wheat this day is b ut inconsiderable, and the sales are at an advance in price of 2s. per quar ter ; Barley, with Malt, hardly support last prices ; scarce any White Pease, price nominal ; Grey and the two kind of beans are ratter lower • the supplies of Oat s are rather consisderable, and this tr,toe .ag- un na ned at a further declension of Is. Per quarter; Flour nearly at last prices. Viscount A.lATEltnit i Mid the oilier D ,, puties from the Spanish Patr iots, ere at Vauxhall OD Friday •.,• IMPORTANT SPANISH DOCU.MP,N7I. PROCLAMATION OF PEACE WITH ENGLAND AND SWEDEN, HER ALLY. Published at Oviedo . , on the aoth of tune, J BOB. , FERDINAND THE'SEVENTII, Nitta. OP SPAiN, AND 'IN HIS IROYAt NAME ; The Suprenie Junta of this Principality . declares a general Peace with _England, 'and at the same time the closest alliance with that nation, which has with the greatest generosity offered all the succours and assistance that have been asked of lief-. They also de clie Peace with Swed e n ; . an d order that all onr ports should be open to vessels of both Nations, and that this Royal Resolution be conununicated ti 'all 'the Justices of this Priticipa . lily. BRIEF: NARRATIVE OF. VIE TRANSACTIONS AT MA DRID, ON MONDAY, THE SECOND OF MAY, 1808, BY AN ENGLISH c&izTr o nlAs WHO WAS 'IIIERE ON THAT DAY. , • The public mind 'had never : seen in a state of per feet tranquillity since the middle of March, when the intention of King 'CHARLES the 1 4 .1 7 t1i to reinove to Seville with the Royal Family was first • tieeted. • The .deposition of the pripce of pE4 -c2 on "the 18th, his imprisonment on the tgth, with the ab dication dieing CHARLES, and accession of Ilia son, PrinCe FERDINAND , which took place on the sa tpe day,-were events that gAVe great satiSfaclion, and might' in time have prOdtieed the happiest effetis•; but the arrival' of the French troops in Madrid, the delivery of the sword of FRANCIS. the First to Mu a“, which had remained in the Royal Armory as a trophy ever since the Battle of Pavia, the departufe of ling FERDIti4ND for Burgos, the deli Very of the Prince of PEACE to the French, and finally the King's determination to pass' the frontier and pat himself in the hands of the French at Bayonne, were circumstance's which revived the ferment, and gradually increased it to such a violent degree, that some formidable explosion was hourly dreaded by the - Junta de Gobriona (of which the infant Dow ANTONIO was left President), and every possible Means was used by the Junta to quiet the alarais of the people, and prevent them from proCeedifig to open ads of violence against the French. A Porte ,or Extraordinary Courier used to arrive everrevening from Rayoane , with apt:gums of the, transactions there; those accnuilts were never pub lished in the Gaiette, but circulated in the form of extraets from private letters Of the King's attendants, and the first of them atfeided a momentary satisfac tion, as they consisted solely Of details of the ho nours paid to Prince FERDINAN ri on his arrival, and the cordial reception he had from BUONAPARTE. The subsequent accounts became daily lets satisfac tory ; first, obscure hints weregiven that all was not well, and then it was explained more clearly, that the intention of the Ruler of France was to pre'vail upon FERDI NAND to resign his Crown. The Porte due on Saturday, the 30th of April, did not arrive. • it was still due on Sunday evening, the first of May, and many thousand people were assembled at the Puerta del Sol, and other- streets near the Post Office, in anxious expectation of the Messenger. The French garrison of Madrid remtined Ftft night Under arms; and the sun of Monday, the second of May, arose on many an unfortunate inhabitant, who was destined never to see another morning, This day was fixed on for the departure of the Queen of ETRURIA, and her brother, the Infante DON FRANCISCO t PA1.1411, for liiiyuhhe. The cu riosity _of Many people led them to the square be fore the Palace to witness the scene, and many wives and families went there to take leave of their husbands and parents, and to lament tueir own hardfate, in being left without any certain pr,vition. When the first carriage appeared at the gate, many Of the ;nob expressed a. suspicion that the Infanta dirr:Af , tiogto, - President of tile Junta, or Provisional, G(nertnnent, .was also to leave diet - h i and under this misconception the riot began. They cut the traces of this carriage, and forced it hack into the Palace Yard, but on bang assured that Dog Aginiro was not to leave Madrid, they per• witted it to he again yoked and brought out. An Aid-de-Camp of General Murikr was sent by him toenquiro into the business ; the mob seemed dis posed to treat him very roughly, but by the inter ference of some Spanish Officers, he was rescued, and permitted to return to his Commander.• The carriages were then allowed to proceed with the Quern of ETEURIA and her brother; the latter was observed to skew great relaCtance, and even to cry-bitterly, which both atfeCted and irritated the pedple. At this moment the same Aid,de-Camp returned with a party of French soldiers; and then the scene, of horror and bloodshed began. It is not easy to ascertain with certainty whether the mob tdr the French soldiery were the first, aggres sors ; but the French soon began to fire vollies of musketry among their Opponents, and many inno cent spectators fell ; one. tine boy of eight years old was shot dead in a window by the first discharge; this was about eleven in the morning. The news spread like wild-fire Ail over the town, and in less than an hour every individual of the lower classes who had the means, was armed and in the streets. At Lira the Spaniards had in most parts of the town the advantage, even though the Spanish troops were not' allowed to take any concern in the affair, having been all locked up in their Barracks by their Officers; and a great number of French troops tell, whose arms were afterwards made use of by those of the Spanish ir4l), who had none; 'but as soon as the dispositions given by General MV RAT began to. take etteet, the preponderance was decidedly op the side of the French ; all the troops of that nation in town were called out, and columns from all the camps ita the neighbourhood entered by different gates, each ar..companied by one or more pieces' of dying artillery, which raked the streets as they ad vanced, and were afterwards Stationed in such places as they were likely to aft with most effea.. Be sides this, the infantry fired vollies into every cross street by,which they passed, and aimed particularly at every window or balcony where any person was to be seen. The most glorious defence made by the Spa , niards was at the Depot of Artillery in Casa de Min . .* teleone, formerly the Hotel of S r BENJAMIN KING`;' when Ambassador at this Cowl, and where the remains of that mo t respc4t4e Minister are in terred. o this deppt 141t7EAi sent a detchment ,to take possession of the artillery and stores, but they found it already ; ,•oecu,pied . by, a handful of Spanish artil flerymen and. inlialiitants, under the command of wo brave ArtilleryOtticert; named Dor.tz and VELAynE. , . . Those two Gentlemen took the command of a few artillergmen, and some of :the populace, who volunteeredtheir services, and, having pointed a werity-foor. pouncter,. loaded with grape shot ; at the gate of the.;iepot, fronting a long 'narrowstreet, by which the . , French colutimmnst necessarily ad vance, they gave them such, a warm reception, ariamade such considerable slaughter,,that the French 'commander could make no Impression, and was obliged to apply to ;Ifit.taAT for a reinforcement: two other columns were dispateliediO their-assist - - ;nee, which attacked the little ,garrison on, both 'flanks from the windows and roofs of houses in the. tir.retider ; but the neighbourhood, ti 4 * summoned them, repeatedly_ to Ofeeis rejedked every propo.4 of. terms, and gallantly held out to the last moment of their existence. One of ,theM was shot dead hy a musket ball, and Mr. Doitz, having hit thigh broken by another:, continued to give his orderst7 ting OA the ground, until be received tf .si iree. other wounds, the last . 44 which put ati.,end,to his gloriOns career. A Corporal of Artillery remained with the command, ‘ivlio Seeing & prospeti ttirther suc cessful opposition, offered to capitulate with the French Oeneral, who agreed ,to grant them terms ; but while the Articles were :arranczing, the. TOwn Major `ot - attiredon hp - rseback, wavi9g • a handkerchief and p?dnlaiming Peace—on wlitch the French were allowed to take possession cif, ihe Their last, at this point . has never been cerre&ly ascertained; hut must have been very considerable, 26 rounds of grape and canister shot had been discharged among the 6rst column, as it adi-anced by the long narrow street already mentioned.. About two o'clock the firing teased all over the town, in consennence of the personal interference of the Council of Castile, and other Tribunals, who pa,- . raded the streets on horseback, attended by many of the Spanish Nobility, and some of the French Generals, and escorted by bodies Of horse; con sisting of Spanish Gardes de Corpt and French Itn;. perial Guards intermixed.. 'Die inhabitant's then fondly flattered themselves that the scene of carnage was at'an end ' • but they soon fonrid'tbat one of a more cool Anotdeliberatp nature was determined on,. In the afternooliMvaigT issued ageneral order to the troops, desiring a Military Tribunal to be #nml diately formed under the Presidency of General GROUCR Y. Before this Ttibtinal all persons 'were brought who had been made prisoners in the morning, or were found in the streets in ci t e eve n in g , any sort of weapun, however trifling, - ab Out them. The bearer of musket, a sabre, a pe , 4-knife, or even a pair of SCiiS3l5, was held equally cuipable and all Och persons were ienttr, , diately 'condemned to be Shot, and the sentence was cy.ectred without delay. Three groups of torty each were successively shot in the Prado-u-a great many, but the number unknown, were shut in the church of the Solida:l, near the Fuerta del Sol; and several other groups of thirty or forty met a situilar fate, neat' the gate of San Vivant*, - Several more persons \vete tried and shot on the following day, but their number i 9 not thought to have been considerable. r itie numbers that *ll on rather nide have never been correctly french carelnlly concealed their lvs., bill it is known that one Gene- Tat and many ot.'er Off i cers were killed, and as cons)deriole &Nation took place-among mein Per mit') and Italian soldiers, it has betm tissared -that the diminution pt their numbers from all cause's nn the second of May exceeded 4000 men. • The total number employed in MAdrid on this day; is saki to have' been about twelve thousand; and !lad the Spanish troops been permitted to at with the populace, it is probable • tint nut one of the first twelve thousand would have escapee. But it was more fortunate for the capital that this did not hap pen, as there were • above .5Q,000 more French, en camped and - quartered ; in the environs, the whole of whom would have been immediately put in motion, nod the consequences must have been the sacking and destruction of Madrid. SEVILLE GAZET !tri , rx j. The COUstituted Authorities of Seville assenibled hi the Lower 'House on the 27th of May, and con stituted themselves into a Suproze Julia of Govern= mcnt. The folloWing were the measures which they adopted. They proclaimed FeRbINAND VII. King of SPAIN and the INDtts; with the accustomed forma lities. • They took possession of the artillery,rtitiskets, and powder in the royal mastranza of artillery, and dis tributed thew for purposes of defence. They ordered ail persons frotn 'l6 to 45, Who had not children, to enroll themselves, and after corn. pleting the regiments deficient in their proper num bers, they distributed the remainder in new corps. They sent couriers to ill the ptincipal towns in the South of Spain, to invite them to follow the e:;arn ple of Seville. They ordered subordinate Juntas to be establish ed in all towns having two thousand hOitseholders, to correspond with and att under the Supreme' Junta. All these measures were carried into greet with , the greatest propiptness and alacrity. MuactA, MAY 24.—FERDINAi4D Vlt. was this day proclaimed King, in presence of the Bishop and Nobility, with FLoernit BLANCA at the head of the latter. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed among the people. , • CARTIIAGRNA, MAY 24.—FERPINAt3D VII. *RS this clay proclaimed, in consequence of the popular cry in his favour. General SALcEno, who had,re ceived orders to carry the Fleet to Toulon, has been deprived of the command. A Junta of war is:appoint ed, at the head of which is Lieut.-General CISNE ROS, and under. him CISCAR and other Officers.-- A Felucca was sent to Port Mahon with this intelli gence. The French Consul has tied ,on board a Danish Corvette, aiht all ttie stamped pallet; sent from Madrid in the name of Me RAT, as Lieutenant- General of the tcinglpm, has bgeu burned. ()di cers have been sent to rouse the people of Granada, Murcia and Valencia. . . GRANADA, MAY the town; on the coast of Granada have decl:red for FgttntNAtib:\ 7 ll. 12,1 he recruiting for his service goes cr. Captain-Gen eral ox grAiloii, who htd, deavoured the popular voice fArouz, 4 FRiultaArt,D,VH. his been Ae_priyecl of his co4kmai)d, which has been given to P..4mit;p4 11011.ki/4,,gq« ; ione.l of a Regiment blSpanigh Cavalry. Tho clamation of FERDINAND VII., eras efte&ed by ;Le influqnce of Oon, JosEt)n Siorrraco, Lieutenant '4l" Artillery; . after , Captain-general had used Lis prevent. it. to pre . h. _ ' SEVILLE, 4utli ikegiment of N . rolun'c** . of At-rapt:4, and a battalion de Sub34a, sent front ,Madrid to Badajoi, proceeded no fariher than 54.f.k7. vena, l , and there ;oiaed the . Plasams * declaring 'the'y would go no fatther; but retain afnd Jef.Ald thei t r cotintry. On the 44th a battalion of ttie Regftent . u:f. Majorca ; stationed at, tadajo2, joined the I),e6iiiie, and,,declared, against The 'rench. Several other . 40anisi s ttorps on the frontiers of lie 'fol lowed their exarnp.l.c. Valencia has also proclaim VII. burned Mi:TRAT's stamped paper, and named his Excellency the Conde ro,u 'citavEz..- os General of, the A,rtny. ' . fly a, person lyrkveci ;from Cad i z a 4 '4lO cielpc)t this morning, we ..team that the Frei:eh Fleet at Cadiz has surrendered . , go n e ih!o . the tiar t OLir,an4 is about its disembark its 156%0(1. ail 4 stores or the use of the place, The tro„ ops in g ,frisoh re on thv . ir march to Seville, ml 4 the'garrison duties .0 lei fohnec bq the riw tevies: SES I IO,E • • CORDO . vA, fUSE 1.-74 LC greatest aerivity rtro- Vailsain this city. The . rastes of the Siera are co pledd 22y,sharp-shooters--44100 Wien are staticitieci the .i,ridge of Alcol'ea. Ihe rii'eit U. ROMAN DE 4aGari sets out to night cvith 30Q excelleit sharp shooters. 0. PEDRO AuousTlN pE tCIiAVARRI cotutnlndsi4e,van gdard ; 26 'cannons and cat re sPOnding ammunition have arrived from Seville. The rrench, informed of the -preparations to resist 0 . 09, hate stopped het*eeri Baylen and Carolina; fVII LB, JUNE 4.---4EaniNANP VIII has been lirdelaitiled at Sebriga, Xenek, P. de S t e. Mar4a, ,Pio. Veal and Leon The People of Cadit have placed D. T O MAS DE MA. out. at their head. The in total 'ce it Cadiz amounts ro 13,935 infantry and i 7 squadrons of Cavairy: Cotnii anicatiOn wtin opened with the English Squadron this rnortiitighy Dot fiEtiRY IVITOriELL, Chef d'Escadre, and DoI PEDRO CREUX, OIDER, of the Royel 4,181e00 of E'rittllNAND VII. vas prutlnitneci at Cadiz on the 31st. rhe stores and ammunition oti board the French tleet, haze been secured.; among Otitet _things 04.)0u muskets have ben Obtaiteed 'and seat _to San Lucar, to be transmitted to SeVille. General CASTANOS IlZts declared in favour of Fort= rrfiebPD Vit The troops under his cerritnand amount to a,941 men, of , id,kutti 3,2'94 nien will this kitty arrive at Ronda on their march to S6 7 ille. Six thousand French are Said to hive Surrendered to the Portuge.z.se at "rthes. Bai4ijOt and the whole of Estretnadura are eager in the cause ; and making every exertion. C4STAtjOS ties published a ProclaniatiOn, inviting ihn people to eolisl, and ordering them to the Supreme ,knia. A Flcelatuatiott of prdoil 6;14 beeiv imied to deeilers and smugglers svhfi join thf rtrsty, provir4 they bade hot been of rtturdet or robber 7." OVIEO6 dAZETT2, juNg Troops are going daily to reinforce the army at Sintander and Leon. FERROL, JUNE s. The regirnetc ilibeinia, of sevilk, are completing here; those of NOples.an4 Of the Crown 'at Logo. Luoo, JUNE 4.--rfroops, with cannthi and an tTionition, are aclvancitig co:btinually to the interior. Rißurno, June i t.-=there was a Like alarm, but now we observe the utmost zeal 4(14 prOniptneiS of the people: BEVAVE~STtt JUI4E 4.--Triioo ldvancing. Vr i LericiA, MAY ‘2B.—All theiiihatiitant, of-the city and Vega, from i 6 to 40, are tailing up armi for FkabINANI) VII. under antlinrity Of the Captain General, AtinttiNct4 ACCISATiIMENTO, and other Authorities of. the City. Valencia declared itself tJn the bath May. PRECAU lIONS Which it will he proper to obse!ve thrallghaut the difnrent Provinces of Spain, in the necessity to which they li3 4 te beeh driven by the French, of resisting the unjust and v;n... lent possession which their Armies are endeavouring to take of the Kingdom. We cannot doubt A moment of the exertions which. the united firovirices of Spain would make to obstrua and defeat the malicious designs of the French; and that they will sacrifice everi their livet on this occasion, the most irriportant, and eten unpa ralleled in the history of • the nation, both in the thing itself, and in the horrible means of ingratitude and perfidy by which the French haVe undertaken, pursued, and are still endeavouring to eirea °Ur slavery _ _ 1. Let the first obje& be to avoid all general ac tions; and to convince ourselves of the very great ha zards,. without any advantage, or even the hope of it, to whiCh they would expose us. The reasons of this resolution are many, and such as any one will, discover who has the use of his understanding. 2. A war of partisans it the system which.saits us ; the embarrassing and. wasting the Enemy's ar , - mies by want of provisions, destroying bridges, throwing up entrenchments in proper situations, and other similar means. The situation of Spain, its many mountains, and thepasses which they presenti it, rivers and torrents, and even the CollOcation of its Provinces, invite us to carry on this species of War= fare successfully. 3. It is indispensible ,that each province should have its General, of knon talent, ap.d of Sikh ex perience as our situation permits ? that his heroic !bit alty should inspire the utmost confidence; atid that every General should have under his command pfficers of merit, particularly of artillery and en gineers. 4. As a combined Onion of plans -it the OW of every well,-concerted enterpriie, and that which alone can promise and facilitate a sasccssful issue, it appears indispansible that there should be thee Generalissimos, who should aft in Concert with each other--- , one who shook" cOinwand in the four king -40;1)3 of Andalusia, in Nlurcia and _l,9wer E4tra rnidura—another in 9ailicia,- upper Estramadura, Old and New Castile, and Leon-another in V.:. Arragon, and Catalonia; a petsap ed the P i .n .~ Pr